[Photo by: Lauren Treece] The beginning is, in fact, finally here. After shifting through exactly 1470 posts for the entire 2012 calendar year, a dozen pots of coffee made, several holes punched in the drywall during heated deliberations, and several concussions suffered from office supplies hurled at each others’ heads, we proudly present the third…

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve probably seen (and loved) Ryan McGinley‘s Moonmilk series. A totally different aesthetic than his unearthly human landscapes, his black and white portraits are proof that the man lives in a world that is quite honestly, far cooler than ours. We’ve featured him twice already and we’re still…

Back in December 2010, all of us here loved Ryan McGinley’s “Moonmilk” series. McGinley has some newer works/series since 2010, and being that he made it to our EK TOP 100 of 2010, we revisit him early this 2012 year to start it off right.

(Photo by: berserker / Steve Skafte ) Within the hallowed halls of Empty Kingdom, our contributors tend to be very proud about the art that we curate. I wouldn’t say it’s a competition to put up the best artists, but when someone finds a really good artist first, we usually compliment each other with “Dammit!!!”…